Speaking to Eurogamer, AJ said: “The three of us were having a good time and talking to [the troll] and then one of us commented on his character or his characters outfit being cute. He replied, ‘I don’t f*ck with that homo shit’ and left.

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The player, named NathanTheHicc , then returned – with back-up.

AJ explained: “The game notified me that if I didn’t fight back, they would do limited damage so I didn’t fight back and hoped they would just get bored and leave.

“They stuck with it and even joked about how ‘this is the strongest queer I’ve ever seen’.”

After AJ’s character had been killed, he left the game for another server.

To all those who say they’re just joking and it’s funny, if you replaced “faggot” with the N-word would you think the same? Would it be funny and just a joke then as well? Young struggling LGBT youth may be playing this, and have 10x the suicide rate of the straight population.